Archive for Items Categorized 'US', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Inside the Duesenberg SSJ, The Special Speedsters
by Angelo Van Bogart
Rare cars indeed! Exactly two produced, both still extant nearly 90 years later and in beautiful condition—now featured in a beautiful book.
Factory Air: Cool Cars in Cooler Comfort, An Illustrated History of Automotive Air-Conditioning
by Allen B. Simons
Would you spend $5K in today’s money on AC in your car? That’s what it cost back in the pre-WWII days, which is what this first of four volumes examines. Hundreds of illustrations, many rare, show Packard, Cadillac, and Chrysler offerings.
The Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild
by John L. Jacobus
Conceived during the Great Depression as a philanthropic project by the Fisher family, the Guild became one of the largest and longest-running youth-oriented design activities ever. The Guildsmen’s 2023 Reunion will be their last ever, so this is the time to read their stories once more.
The Man and Car that Circled the Globe
by G. N. Schuster and J. Mahl
Forget the 1965 movie The Great Race. This book tells and shows what it was really like back in 1908, when traveling 22,000 miles in 169 days was as untried as space travel to Mars is today.
The V-8 Album
by Charles Seims et al
A compilation of facts and photographs pertaining to Fords and Mercurys and a tribute to the flathead V-8 engine that powered them for 21 years, 1932–1953.
The Fall of the Packard Motor Car Company
by James A. Ward
Packard made a better attempt than its peers at surviving the damage done by the Depression of the 1930s, but still it was for naught. Transportation historian Ward examines the reasons.
Corvette; Legend or Myth & Zora’s Marque of Excellence
by Kenneth W. Kayser
The Corvette program began in the 1950s and you’d think by now every morsel of data has been turned over multiple times and the canon is rock solid. Well, this deep dive by a retired GM engineer offers new wrinkles—and he shows the internal docs to prove it.
Chrysler 300: America’s Most Powerful Car
by Robert Ackerson
The “banker’s hot rod” was not an ordinary car. The 300 has a deservedly proud history, which is why Chrysler keeps bringing the nameplate back. To learn how it all started check out this book.
HOT ROD Magazine: 75 Years
by Drew Hardin
Aside from, obviously, the hot rod/drag racing/muscle car theme HRM is noteworthy as a cultural phenomenon. Its success became the template for a host of other niche magazines that would build a veritable publishing empire.
Steve Magnante’s 1001 Corvette Facts
by Steve Magnante
On the lighter but by no means lightweight side of the large body of Corvette literature, this book will entertain and educate for a long while. Written by someone who is a sponge around all things automotive!
The Tom Mix Cord: Saga of a Western Film Star’s Classic Motorcar
by Bob M. White
The “King of Cowboys” was the Hollywood action hero of his day and the highest-paid actor of the silent film era. He did his own stunts so of course he loved fast cars—and this 1937 Cord is the one in which he had that fatal crash.
The Women of General Motors, A Century of Art and Engineering
by Constance A. Smith
Profiles of and interviews with female GMers in design, engineering, manufacturing, and administration. In a 2019 report, GM finished first out of 200 companies in gender equality and is the first—and still only—automaker with a female CEO.
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